pts@bom.gov.au ("Paul (NCC/CS)") writes:

>sd0: fabricating a geometry
>sd0: 7153 MB, 7153 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 14651280 sectors

>It's a 30gig so the fabricated or detected geometry is incorrect and it
>won't mount at all.

Possible.

>Disklabel and fdisk all hang.

That I don't understand. At least it is not caused by the wrong geometry.
When umass hangs it is usually caused by issuing a command that isn't
understood by the device.

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